The Minneapolis Elections Department has come up with a way to speed up its next ranked-choice voting election — and it’s an idea that might be familiar to readers of The Cities. The reason it took two 12-hour days for the city to determine the winner of last year’s mayor’s race was the painstaking approach Read more →

As we reported this morning, writing a computer algorithm to count ranked-choice ballots isn’t exactly rocket science. It’s intro-level computer science. It turns out that there are way more interesting things you can do with the data file Minneapolis released last week showing all the votes in the Minneapolis mayor’s race. Things like this. That’s Read more →

Data released today by the Minneapolis Elections Department show voters who supported Mayor-elect Betsy Hodges were far more likely to have selected a second-choice candidate than those who supported runner-up Mark Andrew. Read more →

Minneapolis City Council Member Betsy Hodges declared victory in the race to succeed outgoing mayor R.T. Rybak. Wednesday night after several rivals called her to concede. City election officials are still counting ballots, because of the city’s ranked choice voting system. Even so, Hodges sounded like she was transitioning to the mayor’s office. “Thank you Read more →

It’s looking increasingly unlikely that Minneapolis will announce the winner of its hotly contested mayor’s race tonight, even though Mark Andrew has conceded and frontrunner Betsy Hodges is scheduled to address supporters at 8:30. The city has been counting votes for more than six hours, and Hodges remains more than 10,000 votes shy of the Read more →

Results from Election Day are coming into focus — Betsy Hodges holds a commanding lead in the Minneapolis mayor’s race — and so is the reaction to ranked-choice voting. About 40 percent of voters went to the polls in Minneapolis. City election officials say that’s more than the last two mayoral elections, and on par Read more →